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SEP 9, 2019 Journal

Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination

Contemporary global justice theorists have largely neglected the transnational aspirations of the post-1945 decolonization movement, instead seeing it as solely a movement for countries to ...

SEP 9, 2019 Journal

Negotiating Peace: A Guide to the Practice, Politics, and Law of International Mediation

Sir Winston Churchill is often credited with the phrase “To jaw-jaw is better than to war-war.” Over the last twenty years, the desire to be ...

SEP 9, 2019 Journal

Injustice: Political Theory for the Real World

In Injustice: Political Theory for the Real World, Michael Goodhart claims that the dominant paradigm's quest for “spotless” justice blinds scholars to the lived injustices ...

SEP 9, 2019 Journal

Humanitarian Action and Ethics

This edited volume from Ayesha Ahmad and James Smith offers an expansive tour across the difficult landscape of ethical conundrums in humanitarian action, traversing issues ...

SEP 9, 2019 Journal

Briefly Noted

In his latest book, Marcus Schulzke analyzes the ethical traditions of three national militaries—the U.S. Army, the British Army and Royal Marine Commandos, ...

SEP 9, 2019 Journal

A Human Rights Approach to Conflict Resolution

The role of human rights abuses in the causes, dynamics, and consequences of conflict illustrate the importance of a human rights approach to conflict resolution: ...

SEP 6, 2019 Journal Online Exclusive

Transactionalism and U.S. Foreign Aid

One of the critical questions we have been grappling with since Donald Trump's election is the extent to which a transactional calculus would come to ...

Bridge of the Americas (El Paso–Ciudad Juárez), June 2016. CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/54593278@N03/27793302444">U.S. Customs and Border Protection/Public Domain</a>

SEP 4, 2019 Podcast

The Model International Mobility Convention, with Michael Doyle

In this timely talk, SIPA's Professor Michael Doyle details the Model International Mobility Convention, a "hypothetical ideal convention" developed to define a "comprehensive and coherent" ...

SEP 3, 2019 Journal Online Exclusive

What is the Status Quo for the Climate?

I have been reading an interesting book by Sarah Parcak called Archaeology from Space: How The Future Shapes our Past.

AUG 27, 2019 Podcast

The Chennai Water Crisis, Governance, & Media Narratives, with Kavitha Rajagopalan

Chennai, one of India's largest cities, is facing an ongoing water crisis due to drought and mismanagement. Senior Fellow Kavitha Rajagopalan explains how it got ...